On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:58:43PM +0200, Heikki Henriksen wrote: > tor, 20,.04.2006 kl. 16.25 -0700, skrev Steve Langasek: > > > > I'm not sure of this. I haven't done a comprehensive review of the packages > > > > currently using /usr/X11R6/bin to make sure none of these packages use GNOME > > > > libs; if any do, and if the packages are significant, a GNOME shlibs bump > > > > could still delay the xorg transition. > > > I did a check on this and didn't find anything, but I might have > > > overlooked something, so ... > > Well, the checks I'm waiting to do are to see whether any of the packages > > x11-common currently conflicts with need new gnome-ish libs before they can > > be updated in testing. This is not very likely, since most gnome-using > > programs are well-behaved and install to /usr/bin instead of to > > /usr/X11R6/bin; but then, there are far more ill-behaved programs installing > > to /usr/X11R6 than there should have been anyway... > I've now checked both up and down in the dependency-chain of > evolution-data-server and nothing either way uses /usr/X11R6. After > tonights dinstall everything will be in place to build gtkhtml, e-d-s > and evolution again. > Can we go with this? As long as none of these libraries are going through soname changes, then yes, please go ahead. If they are going through soname changes, the checks are more complicated than just looking at the dependency chain itself... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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